December, 16th, 2009 6:12pm


This description is from the website www.bookofdolor.com
To find it, go there and click on “Lila”
I dare you.

Officer Caleb Taylor is going through HELL...
He hasn't slept in days, his wife has disappeared without word, he's on a forced leave from active duty and he can't shake the guilt he has over his daughter's drowning.
All of a sudden, in his haze of insomnia, depression and anxiety, something stirs him from beyond the grave. It's something dark, demanding and downright evil.
Can he trust it? Is he really seeing it? Why is this happening? Can we trust him?
Find out in LILA, the first in a series of ten illustrated novellas about a place you won't ever forget, DOLOR.....

This is the tale of the first book found in the town of Dolor. This is exactly what FBI Agent Jeffries (we’re not privileged to a first name yet, just ‘Jeffries’) has to figure out as well. He has come to this place which recently suffered from a large fire that leveled most of the city, except strangely enough, only burnt the outside of a old house in the center of town. However once he enters the old house he finds 10 small diaries. Each diary has a different style of handwriting and name, and each from different years. He doesn’t know why there are 10 different diaries from 10 different people or how they got into the house that didn’t burn on the inside. All he knows is the first diary was left open and just read, “LILA”… This is where we begin the saga.

DOLOR: LILA, BOOK 1

Author Rick Florino and Artist Tony Caso are crafting something here. The style of the book is different and refreshing. It’s not a heavy read, it’s not meant to be, the good thing is it keeps its pace and doesn’t lag so you’re always turning the page looking for the next thing to happen and Rick doesn’t disappoint on this.

As you go through this book if you weren’t paying attention you’d think you were looking at several different artists with the changes in styles that move along hand in hand with the atmosphere of the story. Rick and Tony compliment each other very well throughout with how well they present the story of this little town that God just doesn’t seem to care about.

Now what the story exactly is where not sure – NOT YET - but this is a good thing, because they have made it so that we want to find out more. Dolor: Lila, grabs you and hooks you in, like a Cenobite on Holiday! That’s its job and it’s done it well. Lila’s story is just the beginning and it grabs you quickly right from the start and doesn’t let you go until you put the book down. And you won’t want to, you’ll want to finish it first and then sit there…in the dark…waiting for the 2nd book…CHRISSY. What this book has done to us is it’s taken us on a ride ala early X-Files as where you’re saying to yourself, “I think I know what’s going on here. Okay, maybe I’m not sure, but I think I know. I need to know more!”

If you’ve never heard of the town of Dolor before you will come to know about it soon enough and you will embrace it, fear it or just simply succumb to the evil that may or may not reside there. We’re still not sure what's going to happen, Rick hasn’t finished telling us yet what it’s all about.
You’re evil Rick, just evil.
We like you…